Literacy for digital futures : mind, body, text / Kathy A. Mills, Len Unsworth, and Laura Scholes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Beyond education for industry 4.0 : next-generation literacies -- Mind and materiality of reading -- Critically evaluating multiple sources for digital futures -- Why video gaming is an important digital literacy practice -- Embodiment and digital media literacies -- Haptics and motion in literacy practices with digital media -- Virtual, augmented and mixed reality -- Infographics and scientific literacy -- Advancing animated story composition through coding -- Digital interactive literature -- Multimaterial literacies for digital futures.

"The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualized, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes-Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics-to shape readers' understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice"-- Provided by publisher